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| 09/20/2006 05:35:05 PM |
Wind Powered Electricityby DianaComment: What a marvellously bizarre non-DPC photograph. After the usual string of attempts at shiny happy photography, this makes a refreshing change. |
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| 09/20/2006 05:22:48 PM |
Dead Trees' Epitaphby SteveDunsterComment: I like the steely-grey feel of the sky - has that kind of pre-storm greasy feeling. I don't think you've served the strange geometry of the pylon particularly well with this point of view however: its arms might as well not be there, although nevertheless they're present enough to know that they've not been shown to effect. |
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| 09/20/2006 05:15:04 PM |
Let me glowby romysreeComment: More interesting than most. God knows why, but it has a certain south-american feeling to it - could just be the beat-up ceiling/wall, or the flies, or whetever they are. Maybe bare bulbs just always remind me of certain novels and films. Whatever. Kind of nice to be evocative with such a simple image. |
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| 09/20/2006 05:01:20 PM |
Transportingby LjonComment: Interesting structures - but that isn't enough by itself to make an impactful photograph. There's no sense of scale here - these things could be five foot high, or fifty. Compositionally, you have two sets of lines working against each other - hte parallels of the background, and the diagonals of the power lines. The natural tendency is to follow converging lines to the vanishing point, but you've placed that out of frame, which leads the eye out of your image. The interest, I would say, is in the crazy shapes of those pylons, but your chosen point of view hasn't made the most of that impact. |
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| 09/20/2006 04:54:05 PM |
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| 09/20/2006 04:51:59 PM |
Light in the Nightby rileyComment: This verges on the feeling that there are two frames in one here - the regression of light in the road, and the cityscape alongside it seem almost completely disconnected - an intersting dynamic, though one senses that its more by chance here. A few things make it too complex an image for DPC - the strong vertical black thing, the slightly out of ordinary composition - the dynamic pulls us both to the top right and the bottom left where htat amber streetlight echoes the regression of others along the road - leaving the skyline and the other lighted window to almost simple clutter up the picture. It might work as a large print - but it pays never to forget that the medium you're presenting in here is a really quite small web image - as a 2x1.4 inch print, would you expect this to work? |
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| 09/20/2006 04:45:25 PM |
electricityby ShrinkComment: For me this lacks any great impact; it's composed to accentuate the sign - fair enough - but there's no suprise there, nor visual parallel to the scene, just a quite straightforward and not very interesting warning. The fencing stops the strange structures of the sub-station making much impact in the image. I don't really understand the point of it, I'm afraid. |
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| 09/20/2006 04:39:23 PM |
Electric Sunby jrtoddComment: Spark trails are always fun, but there are a couple of points I'd make about this shot; whilst you've done well in capturing the trails, you're perhaps a bit under-exposed as far as the overall scene is concerned - a little extra light somewhere perhaps, give us more of an idea of context? And I'm unsure of your overall compositional sense here - the real centre of attention is the bright spot, but that seems slightly uncomfortably placed in frame to me, and without enough balancing interest in complementary areas. But it's nicely done, despite those reservations. |
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| 09/20/2006 04:30:09 PM |
Midnight Light Shows, Hurricane Season in Floridaby behindthescenesComment: Marvellous stuff. I don't find lighting shots particularly interesting personally, but can appreciate that this is as good as they get - or almost so. Maintaining some interest in the clouds and water shows careful exposure, and a thoughtful approach. Just one thought: presuming that this is one of a number of shots (after all, you don't just turn up and take one in this situation, do you?), I wonder if you haven't taken the one with the most lightning in it as the best - was there something a touch simpler, and perhaps the more impactful for it? The sheer quantity here makes it perhaps less dramatic than a more coherent, simpler structure of lines might be. |
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| 09/20/2006 04:21:29 PM |
Fire Hazardby MongooseDoggieComment: This has a certain something to it - though your crop pretty quickly begins to seem rather arbitrary. The toning is well done, but your subject, as is apparent from your depth of field, doesn't quite tie in with your title from where I'm sitting. |
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